Well today looked cloudy, so we didn't think we'd be doing much observing. I spent part of the afternoon sweeping out the observatory and sorting out the cables. The serial cable for the motor that rotates the dome isn't connected to anything, and there is also a stray cable that looks like it would go to another camera. And we think that the problem with networking from the observatory to the hab is that the software hasn't been installed since the last time the computer configuration was changed. VNC won't start up in the hab and internet explorer can't find the server from the observatory. I also put caulking in the bottom edges of the observatory base to better seal it from sand and water (it is very dusty in there and water had seeped in when we first arrived).

It was still rather cloudy when nightfall came, but I started up the ccd and began taking calibration (bias and dark) frames. At the request of the crew, I pointed the telescope at Jupiter for some visual observations. The image was spectacular! Jupiter was very large and bright and you could see two distinct dark bands going across it. The four Galilean moons were also very bright. After everyone had a chance to look, I put the ccd back on to try to take an image. It took a while to refocus the telescope for the ccd, but then Jupiter showed up bright, big, and looking very much like a billiard ball. The images need to be processed and then I will upload them. When the west and south became cloudy, I picked a target to the north. I imaged IP Ursa Majoris, a medium amplitude delta scuti star, for about an hour and a half until the entire sky clouded over at about 2 am. I'll process the images and calculate magnitudes when I'm back in Provo and upload the light curves later. That's all for now.